Intel Z170 motherboards are ready but processors are still far away

Posted on Thursday, March 26 2015 @ 11:11 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Italian tech site Bits and Chips spoke to manufacturers at CeBIT and got to heard that major motherboard makers have all finished the designs of their Z170 ATX and Micro-ATX motherboards.

The only problem preventing a launch is processor availability. The Z170 is designed for the Skylake-S platform, which introduces the LGA1151 socket. The new flagship chipset will reportedly support up to 20 PCI Express Gen 3.0 lanes, a substantial upgrade versus the previous generation.

According to a rumor from yesterday, Skylake may arrive around October so these boards will still be quite a few months away from us.

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